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In a new-found quest to make my blog more useable and refrain from moving it to Wordpress, I just installed a few more improvements.

actual search box is in the right-hand column

On the right column you can now find a "Search This Blog" box. Just type in a term you are looking for and it will return a list of all the posts in this blog containing this term and even a list of all the websites I link to from this blog, which also include that search term. For example, you could find everything I ever linked to or wrote regarding "Mamou". Go ahead, search for something. How about Gainesville?

this is how results appear for the search term "Mamou" - the first tab is for my blog post

To add the "Search This Blog" box on Blogger/Blogspot, just go into Dashboard -> Layout -> Page Elements. Then click on "Add A Gadget". Right now it's listed under "new" and under "basic".

this is how results appear for the search term "Mamou" - the second tab is for links going out from this blog

In an effort to streamline the look a bit, I took out the "subscribe to this blog". It seems that most people now know that you can click on the RSS feed icon in the url window to subscribe through a reader. And if you aren't familiar with RSS readers, you probably would want to use the "subscribe by email" anyway, which is still there in the right column.

The other piece new to this blog, is a way to easily share blog posts directly on social networking sites. Below each post there now is a section called "Share".

share and social networking bookmark buttons before you click on "share"(the actual share buttons are below the post)

If you click on "Share" you can instantly share the post to a ridiculous amount of different sites you frequent - the most popular are singled out directly, i.e., facebook, MySpace, Google Bookmarks and Twitter.

bookmarking icons after you click on "share"

To add the social networking bookmark icons to all kinds of services (including the new blogger / blogspot), go to addthis.com and follow the easy steps there. After scrambling with a bunch of html code that other sites recommended (and that still didn't work), I couldn't believe how easy it was to use this method. I'm so glad I found it eventually and I hope my post can help someone else.

I hope you like the new improvements to the Good Hard Working People Blog.

Please share this post or other posts from my blog that you find worth sharing by clicking on your preferred site's icon below.

This very limited-run calendar is not for sale! Instead, I would like to gift it to the first 5 people who pledge their support for my work through Patreon - and to the kind people who are already Patreon supporters. Deadline: January 7th, 2017.

All you have to do is pledge your support on my Patreon page: Patreon.com/LuciWest (for as low as $1 a month). You can cancel anytime. By being a patron you will get other early and even exclusive content and gifts...

If you're already supporting my work through Patreon, just send me a message that you'd like a calendar. If you're one of the first 5 people to respond, I'll send one your way.

The Moving Postcard World Travel Map is not just any kind of map, it's a world scratch-off map... that my dear friendJudith Hecktorgave me earlier this year. I had been waiting for just the right time to shoot a time-lapse video for you to show you all the countries where I've shot Moving Postcard videos in chronological order...

As you see when watching the video, it's not just a time-lapse video of me scratching off the countries and flags on the world travel map, but also a quick glimpse of a video from each of the 11 countries I visited (or lived in) during the 6 1/2 years of publishing Moving Postcard videos every week.
If you would like to see more 1-minute videos from these 11 countries, please check out the respective collections:Germany,Spain,USA,Czech Republic,Portugal,Thailand,United Kingdom,Brazil,Poland,Mexico, andCuba.
Thank you so much, Judith, for this awesome map. You sure know how to find amazing and meaningf…

There's nothing quite like a German Christmas Market (Weihnachtsmarkt).
And the Hamburg Christmas Market is probably my favorite. It's the
Weihnachtsmarkt of my childhood and probably the only one that serves
Fischbrötchen (fish on a roll).

This video of the Hamburg Christmas Market, I filmed last week at two
different markets that are near each other: the Weisser Zauber at
Jungfernstieg (on the Alster River) and the Hamburger Weihnachtsmarkt at
the Rathausmarkt (city hall square). I filmed this video before the attack on the Berlin Christmas Market.

For
several days, I contemplated if I should publish this video at all - in
the aftermath of such a tragedy. Then it became obvious: of course, I
would publish a German Christmas Market video this week! As a matter of
fact, by now I feel lucky that I had filmed such a video during my trip
back home to Germany so I could take a stand this week. It's very
importa…

The Hotel Nacional de Cuba and the Plaza de la Revolución are two of the
main sights worth visiting in the Vedado neighborhood of Havana, Cuba.
In Vedado, you will also find the Cristóbal Colón Cemetery (check out my
video "Cristóbal Colón Cemetery, Havana (Cuba) – In Another Minute (317)") and the Afro-Cuban mecca of street art and culture Callejón de Hamel, which I might feature in another video...

In this week's video, I'd like to take you on a bit of a visual tour
of history. We start at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba (built in 1930),
drive a Cuban classic car taxi past a mural depicting the travel of the Granma yacht
(that brought the revolutionaries, including the Castro brothers,
Guevara and Cienfuegos, to Cuba in 1956 to overthrow the Batista regime)
and end at the Plaza de la Revolución, completed in 1959, the year
Fidel Castro came to power.